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Blue Wave Bar and GrillPrincipal Software Engineer - Agentic Engineering Platform
OpenTable, a subsidiary of Booking Holdings, Inc., operates an established dining platform supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of restaurant partners. The organization is…
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OpenTable, a subsidiary of Booking Holdings, Inc., operates an established dining platform supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of restaurant partners. The organization is seeking a founding member for the Agentic Engineering Platform group within Product Engineering. In this role, the principal engineer will work to redesign the software delivery workflow so that staff and artificial intelligence agents collaborate in shared workspaces to automate tasks and decrease delivery…
Job Description
OpenTable, a subsidiary of Booking Holdings, Inc., operates an established dining platform supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of restaurant partners. The organization is seeking a founding member for the Agentic Engineering Platform group within Product Engineering.
In this role, the principal engineer will work to redesign the software delivery workflow so that staff and artificial intelligence agents collaborate in shared workspaces to automate tasks and decrease delivery costs. Responsibilities include designing shared cloud agents and developer tools, connecting AI models to company knowledge and engineering systems, and establishing risk controls, permissions, and automated reviews for unattended agent execution.
The position suits an experienced software professional with a deep background in production systems, API design, and current AI coding tools who can translate complex, ambiguous technical challenges into functional experiments and solutions.
Please note that the hiring organization for this listing is stated as Blue Wave Bar and Grill within the metadata context, while the descriptive content refers to OpenTable.
Responsibilities
- Pinpoint critical roadblocks in software delivery workflows through data and direct observation, select valuable problems, and guide initiatives toward adoption
- Design and operate cloud agents and developer tools that link artificial intelligence models with codebases, APIs, and company knowledge
- Streamline the entire software lifecycle from planning and implementation to testing, review, rollout, and production feedback
- Collaborate directly with product engineering teams to learn their specific domains, test pilot solutions, and package tools for independent use
- Ensure reliable unattended agent activity through permission controls, isolated execution environments, automated testing, failure recovery, and cost monitoring
- Run short experiments with emerging artificial intelligence capabilities while measuring delivery speed, quality, review effort, and total cost
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of software engineering background
- Experience independently launching and maintaining production systems utilized by others
- Solid grasp of API design, service-oriented architecture, scalability, and security practices
- Proficiency with current artificial intelligence coding tools such as Claude, Codex, or Cursor
- Demonstrated ability to help other software engineers adopt new tools or methodologies through communication and collaboration
Qualifications
- Experience creating and rolling out agents and shared engineering utilities
- Production background involving cloud infrastructure, service identity, permissions, isolated execution environments, and distributed systems
- Familiarity with automated testing, agent behavior evaluations, tracing, and observability instruments
- Experience scaling a prototype into widespread usage across multiple engineering teams
- Background in learning and enhancing complex existing products within marketplaces, bookings, payments, or transaction-heavy sectors
Core Skills
Benefits
- Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days annually
- Company-paid therapy sessions via SpringHealth
- Paid subscription to Headspace
- Annual company-wide week off for complete team rest
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid time off along with birthday time off
- Paid volunteer time
- Development dollars and leadership development opportunities
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learning resources
- Travel discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- Private health and dental insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Annual bonus and equity grant eligibility
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